Chris Jackson posted the following few days ago. I think he is working on both Conbee and Raspbee (?)...

chris:

I will look to add support for the ConBee dongle which is available in two forms - a RPi board, and a USB stick. I'll get one ordered up and try and get this running quickly to improve the options.....

# ZigBee Binding
The ZigBee binding supports an interface to a wireless ZigBee home automation network.
## Supported Things
### Coordinators
#### TI2531 Coordinator
This needs to be done manually and the serial port must be set.
##### TI2531 - Firmware
The TI2531 USB dongle must be flashed with the correct firmware in order to work with this binding.
The file can be downloaded from TI website archives (http://www.ti.com/tool/z-stack-archive) as part
of the `Z-STACK-HOME v.1.2.2a` package.
The file name is `CC2531ZNP-Pro-Secure_Standard.hex` and its sha256 is `3cc5dc571ef0f49e3f42c6c2ca076d6f8fef33a945c71e6f951b839ba0599d3c`.
##### Flashing on Linux

I'm hoping that the ConBee won't be hard to support - I've started to implement the dongle and have one arriving today (although I'm in France for a few days). Both ConBee and RaspBee are the same as far as I know so once ConBee is implemented the RaspBee will also work (hopefully!).

Q1: Is there an option to gather the current status of all channels from time to time or at least at some event (e.g. when a thing came online)?

There are two things here - polling, and reporting. I've not implemented polling, but will do so. In theory though, the bulbs should be configured to send updates on their state when things change - although I've not tested this so it might not work .

curlyel:

Q2: Are the lamps reporting the CT range somehow?

I don't believe so - I just had a quick look at the cluster and it doesn't seem to provide this.

curlyel:

Is it possible to scale 0-100 percent to their range?

I think this could be done with some scaling configuration parameters as mentioned earlier.

curlyel:

Q3: Implicite update on switching channel?

Agreed - the new converter system should make this possible...

However, I may also remove the switch channel if dimmer is available since in reality both are not required. This should avoid such confusion. Currently I just populate all channels that the device might support, but my thought is to optimise this, and supporting both switch and dimmer channels is not needed I think.

Conbee/Raspbee support would be a good option from a Swedish point of view since they are pretty easy to get here. Do you know if they build upon some bitcloud ncp firmware and would be pretty generic, or will support be limited to just Dresden products.

If I'm right, these devices rely on "touchlink". Up to now, I was not able to discover it even when just millimeters away from the CC2531.

So I'm curious, if "touchlink" join can work with the binding and/or the CC2531 coordinator.

I've read, that the Dresden Electronic stuff can do so. Do you know if this is even possible having touchlink devices included using the binding in a zigbee network controlled by a CC2531 and/or ConBEE/RaspBEE?

If I'm right, these devices rely on "touchlink". Up to now, I was not able to discover it even when just millimeters away from the CC2531.

Most (all I think) ZLL devices can also use standard association methods. Touchlink is only used for ZLL, where HA uses the standard association. If the device only uses touchlink then I don't think you can use it, but I would be surprised if this was the case given other Philips devices don't require this.

Touchlink also requires a special security key and I believe that this is not publicly available. Companies have to sign an NDA to get this key so it's really not available for OS projects.

O.k. thanks for the explanation. I've been digging for some more information about these plugs: But all documentation/tutorials I've found are referring to touchlink pairing - even when connecting to a HUE bridge.

More than this, there seems to be no way to do a real factory reset of it - only option is an unpair from a remote using touchlink as well